Collier v. Turpin’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.3d 1184 · 1999
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Putman v. Head (2001)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“precipitated a “breakdown in the adversarial process.” The jury was called upon to determine whether a man whom they did not know would live or die; they were not presented with the particularized circumstances of his past and of his actions on the day of the crime that would have allowed them fairly to balance the seriousness of his transgressions with the conditions of his life. Had they been able to do so, we believe that it is at least reasonably probable that the jury would have returned a sentence other than death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel presented no more than a hollow shell of the testimony necessary for a `particularized consideration of relevant aspects of the character and record of [a] convicted defendant before the imposition upon him of a sentence of death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question of whether a decision by counsel was a tactical one is a question of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.